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Details of Travel and Tourism Industry:
The travel and tourism industry, along with the related sectors contributing to it, is expected to grow in leaps and bounds in the coming years. A job in this industry can be highly exciting and adventurous and even pays well. In India, the travel industry hopes to create 46 million job opportunities by 2025. Though it was slow to take off in this country, the government's initiatives in this field are uncovering a bright future for those who want to make a career in this field. According to a report published by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), '''India could possibly add another Rs. 8, 50,000 crores by the year 2020-just through tourism! WTTC calculated that tourism generated 8.31 lakh crore or 6.3 per cent of the nation's GDP in 2015 and supported 37.315 million jobs,''' which is about 8.7 per cent of its total employment.

Career options in travel and tourism:

Students have endless career opportunities in the fastest growing industry of travel.Few of the career options are working in travel agencies, Customer Ground Handling (customer service) at international or domestic airports, tour operator, event manager, ticketing officer, adventure tourism expert, transport officer, holiday consultant, logistics, cruises, airlines, hotels, and tourism departments in government and private sectors.

The travel and tourism industry provides various job:
The Main Job under Travel Industry is: Ticketing Executive: Many of the MNCs, Travel BPOs, OTA (Online Travel Agency), Back Office of airlines,Travel Agency, Tour Operator etc are looking good skilled people to work for the Domestic and International Ticketing Reservation. Though there are many jobs are available under Tourism industry but in this article, it has been discussed only on Jobs as a ticketing executive. Growth and salary: As a fresher, you can expect a salary range between 10-20 thousands.But after couple of years of experience you can expect a very good salary that could go up to 50-60 thousands. In India the situations are in favor. Many of MNCs, Travel BPOs, big OTA and Travel agents have thousands of vacancies in India. Even one can get a job abroad.

How to start? Minimum qualification to enter in this industry is-10+2 and one should possess a good communication skill in English. Knowledge of computer would be an added an advantage. How to get the training- for the digital/Electronic air ticket: One has to get trained on GDS (Global Distribution System). There are many GDS there in the travel industry but Galileo and Amadeus are the best one and it is in demand. One should also learn about International air fare and Ticketing. If you are taking the admission in any institute must check weather they cover GDS and Air Fare.

Where to get the admission?: There are many institute in India who cover the all above mentioned syllabus.

Institutes are in Delhi.
 * 1) Travel Tourism Academy-Ph No-8586818292
 * 2) IITC-Delhi-Ph No-011 2331 2510
 * 3) Bird Academy-Pn No-011 4352 7843

Mumbai
 * 1) Trade Wings Institute-Ph No-022 2287 5231
 * 2) Blue Whale Academy-Ph No-099870 37446
 * 3) Kuoni Academy-Ph No-022 6236 1005

Chennai
 * 1) Trade Wings-Ph No-044 2852 0639
 * 2) Institute Of Airlines And Travel Agencies-Ph No-044 2827 7606

Kolkata
 * 1) Trade Wings-Ph No-033 2243 0625
 * 2) Nightingale Institute of Management Studies-Ph No-033 2321 0466